as http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel-30/#other-items states the xpath data model has matured and needs to add 'other types' ... which have no xml serializations
following on from this statement, I am wondering if the XQuery WG has considered what could be returned in the following scenario: let $a := fn:position#0 return fn:string($a) it maybe nice to return the name of the function "fn:position" as a string ... conversely, let $a := fn:position#0 return fn:QName($a) would return the qname of the function. its probably a stretch to extend this to function arity eg. let $a := fn:position#0 return xs:integer($a) which would return a value of 0. it may also be useful to expand the description of what functions are in the data model via fully describing the term 'callable' here http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel-30/#other-items. James Fuller _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
